i want it for music production, no internet, ive got speakers and decent monitor.

it seems very fuckin cheap to be fair , for a quad core / 4gb ram / 750 hdd ..

will be getting this weekend .

Acer now own Packard bell , well the vast majority of it , so their product build runs along side packard bells .. Acer is now one of the biggest in the market .. owning Gateway aswell . so i know its a decent make / build.

can anyone see if there is something missing in the spec that im not noticing .

as ive seen the same spec and computer for £530 or something on another site ..

is the motherboard ect good .. ? will i be able to add a decent firewire card ect ? , im hopeing it has pci-e slots .

that processor will run any program very smoothly, and its a bargain. Pity it comes with Vista, Windows 7 is a must, unless the programs you use run better on XP? I know serato etc. states that XP is better. But yeah, thatll do everything you want it to do speedylike, just upgrade or downgrade from vista.

Cheers for recommending ebuyer bud, ordered my laptop at 4pm yesterdat and got woken up at 7.30 this moring by Mr Postman, thats what I call service.

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no worries, ebuyer pride them selves on service, customer service is good aswell. any probs just phone and they will keep helping you till your happy and sorted.

i ordered off them at 6.00pm once, it arrived in the morning ! .. i think the packers starts at like 9.00pm then drive out to deliver at midnight or something.. always stupidly quick delivery with them . and ebuyer usually do unbeatable prices...

that processor will run any program very smoothly, and its a bargain. Pity it comes with Vista, Windows 7 is a must, unless the programs you use run better on XP? I know serato etc. states that XP is better. But yeah, thatll do everything you want it to do speedylike, just upgrade or downgrade from vista.

go to that site and do a sytem scan and it will tell you what u can upgrade ram wise. the max your comp can have, what speed etc.

ETHIX, as far as motherboards go, the one in that acer should be fine for what you need it for, music production. (extreme spec mobo's are really for hardcore gamers and overclockers and whatnot) There may be limitations on future upgrades but it has a quad core which suggests a fairly new mobo, so i would say go for it mate, looks a bargain

I can't find exactly what motherboard it is but no doubt it will have at least 1 x PCI-Express slot and 1 or even 2 PCI slots

Sound wise its got SPDIF out on it which is what i have on my XFI soundcard and i run an optical cable to an external receiver for 5.1 surround.

Windows XP will read the 4GB of RAM if you use the 64bit version of XP, which isn't that great from what I have heard due to lack of drivers support. The 32bit XP will read around 3.3GB of your RAM which is still more than adequate for what you need it for. Any 32bit OS will only read about 3.3GB RAM, even Vista and Windows 7.

You could go for a 64bit Operating System(Vista or 7) as driver support is pretty good now. On my current setup i have a 500GB HD dual booting Windows 7 and Windows XP and a secondary 160GB HD with Windows Vista, got the best of all worlds. And to be honest with you, There isn't a great deal of difference in terms of speed between any of them.

My sound card drivers suck a bit on windows vista and 7, but no doubt there will be some new ones soon. I quite like Windows 7 and I havent had any major compatibility problems with any software i use, and what little problems I've had there has always been a workaround for anyway, so my advice, when you can afford it.... Take the plunge to Windows 7 64 bit. The way of the future my friend!!